East Texas 1916 In the great mansions of Houston Avenue Howbutker live the towns founding families: Toliver Warwick & Du Mont. Over generations they have settled their differences by exchanging roses: a red rose to ask for forgiveness & a white rose to accept. But when precocious teenager Mary Toliver inherits cotton plantation Somerset from her father Vernon the first seeds of discontent are sown. & it is not the last time Mary will sell her soul for the sake of the family soil. When she declines the proposal of handsome timber magnate Percy Warwick it is a shattering choice that will spell heartbreak for generations to come. ...

The sixth novel in the Alex Cross detective series A series of meticulously planned bank robberies ends in murder & detective Alex Cross must pit his wits against the bizarre & sadistic mastermind behind the crimes. Although torn between dedication to his job & commitment to his family Cross cannot ignore the case despite the risks he knows will come with hunting down a killer
- & the heartbreaking cost. James Pattersons bestseller takes us from deep inside the crazy world of a psychopaths masquerade right to the heart of fictions most brilliant detective. Alex Cross is back in an explosive tale where mind games lead to violence & the slightest mistake will be punished with death.
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Rosie" is a compelling novel by the bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Her brutal violent family will be the death of her... Without a mother Rosie is at the mercy of her father & thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley. But soon enough Heather vanishes abandoning Rosie to her fate. Only when Thomas Farley comes to find his sister several years later does Rosie learn the terrible truth about Heather
- & her family. Running away from home she finds herself pursued by the man who brought ruin on her family. Is he out to get her too? Or could he have some other reason for chasing her? Lesley Pearse author of the UK & international best-sellers " Stolen" & " Belle" tells a captivating & powerful story of family & secrets in her compelling novel " Rosie". If you like Susan Lewis youll love Lesley Pearse. Praise for Lesley Pearse: " With characters it is impossible not to care about.. .this is storytelling at its very best". (" Daily Mail"). " Lose yourself in this epic saga". (" Bella"). " An emotional & moving epic you wont forget in a hurry". (" Womans Weekly"). With her gripping & moving storylines best-selling author Lesley Pearse has captured the imaginations of millions in the UK & abroad. Her other titles " The Promise" "A Lesser Evil" " Till We Meet Again" " Secrets" " Charlie" " Father Unknown" " Gypsy" " Trust Me" " Faith" " Never Look Back" " Remember Me" & " Hope" are also available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol & has three daughters & two grandchildren."
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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! Tilly spends every spare minute at Silver
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Nick Robertson has become used to his grandmother Rosie's dotty behaviour. At 86 a widow now she is determined that before life passes her by she will live a little. Or preferably a lot. It wouldn't be so bad if Nick had nothing else to do but with a job to find two warring parents to cope with & a love life in terminal decline he would prefer his grandmother to get on with things quietly. But Rosie insists there is no time like the present. Life is to be enjoyed to the full & to hell with the consequences. She'll help Nick find the soulmate he clearly lacks & he can help her make the most of her few remaining years. Alan Titchmarsh's sparkling new novel is a delicious blend of humour & romance & a resounding affirmation that there is no such thing as the generation gap. ...

Tell me Alice how does a girl go about getting a divorce these days? Three years ago Rosie walked blindly into marriage with Harry. They have precisely nothing in common except perhaps their little boy Ivo. Not that Harry pays him much attention preferring to spend his time with his braying upper class friends. But the night that Harry drunkenly does something unspeakable Rosie decides he's got to go. In between fantasizing how she might bump him off she takes the much more practical step of divorcing this blight on her & Ivo's lives. However when reality catches up with her darkest fantasies Rosie realizes at long last that it is time she took charge of her life. There'll be no more regrets.. .she hopes. ...

Although entirely fictional Rosie of the River" was inspired by Catherine Cooksons own experience of holidaying on the Norfolk Broads with her husband Tom. It is yet another example of the prodigious talent of Britains best-loved author. When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife Sally that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage & they & their bull-terrier Bill set off with Fred at the helm of " Dogfish Three." Sallys misgivings are soon justified as a series of disasters human nautical & canine threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating fraternity & encounter the remarkable 15-year-old Rosie whose family history stirs their curiosity & sympathy. As a result Fred & Sally decide to support Rosies efforts to better herself -- & are rewarded when she finds love & happiness." ...

Marvellous". (John Boyne author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas). " Adorable...A gem of a book". (Marian Keyes). The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love life & lobsters... Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows though is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely completely definitely not. Telling the story of Rosie & Don Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project is an international phenomenon sold in over thirty countries
- & counting. Don Tillman is a socially challenged genetics professor who's decided the time has come to find a wife. His questionnaire is intended to weed out anyone who's unsuitable. The trouble is Don has rather high standards & doesn't really do flexible so despite lots of takers
- he looks like Gregory Peck
- he's not having much success in identifying The One. When Rosie Jarman comes to his office Don assumes it's to apply for the Wife Project
- & duly discounts her on the grounds she smokes drinks doesn't eat meat & is incapable of punctuality. However Rosie has no interest in becoming Mrs Tillman & is actually there to enlist Don's assistance in a professional capacity: to help her find her biological father. Sometimes though you don't find love: love finds you... Like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a truly distinctive debut. With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time & the romance of David Nicholls' One Day it's both funny & endearing
- & is set to become the feel-good novel of 2013... Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant & educator he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling now entering its fourth edition) & is married to Anne a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children."




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This is a story that could only have come from the imagination of Russell Hoban! Brought vividly to life by picture book great Quentin Blake. This story begins with an ice-lolly stick. Its sweetness gone it lies discarded & lonely...until a little girl called Rosie comes along. She places it carefully in her cigar box full of other sticks. Without our ice-lollies we are nothing " says an old stick. But new stick wants to BE something & into the minds of all the old sticks he plants dreams...maybe they can be something too. What about Rosie & her dreams that night? She dreams of helping her parents pay the bills. & so at the stroke of midnight magic & dreams collide & a HORSE gallops out of the cigar box! His name is Stickerino. " Where to?" he asks Rosie. " Anywhere with treasure!" she answers & hops on its back. Then begins an adventure like no other...ice-lolly mountains by the sea caskets of gold & pirates foiled by a stickling ice-cream van... Inventive & original this is a gem from the upside-down imaginative landscape of Russell Hoban. Quentin Blakes hallmark illustration style breathes energy & mischeviousness into something as small & ordinary as a disused ice-lolly stick. If an ice-lolly stick can be a horse...then YOU can be anything you wish to be! This beautiful edition is jacketed." ...

When Rosie the hen sets off for a stroll she is unaware of the distinctly fox-shaped shadow thats following her. But luckily for Rosie her pursuer is the clumsiest of his kind! This timeless picture book by Pat Hutchins is now over thirty years old & still a firm favourite. ...